Nightly Brief

Top CNS stories for today including a federal judge in Philadelphia ordering the Trump administration not to enforce new rules that could significantly reduce women’s access to free birth control; a divided National Labor Relations Board overturned an Obama-era precedent that allowed workers to hold companies responsible for labor law violations committed by their contractors or franchises; a federal judge held the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court in New Orleans is violating the Constitution by charging poor prisoners fees they are unable to pay and relying on those fees to fund the court and pay salaries; a federal prosecutor rebutted claims by three teams of defense lawyers in the FIFA bribery trial in Brooklyn who said their clients had nothing to do with the corruption that has tainted international soccer for decades, and more.

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Jose Maria Marin, center, arrives at federal court in Brooklyn. He is one of three former South American soccer officials who are on trial in a U.S. case highlighting widespread corruption in the sport’s governing body. (AP/Craig Ruttle)